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Boehm urges voters to re-elect Bush and Cheney
Election 2004 Special Edition
Ryan Boehm
Issue date: 10/27/04 Section: News
President George W. Bush became president-elect a full month later than most and by the slimmest margin in history.
This prevented an immediate mandate but just over nine months later, all the partisan bickering that followed the controversial 2000 election was pushed aside when people ceased to be Republicans and Democrats, instead banding together as simply Americans.
Sept. 11 was one of the darkest days in our nation's history. We all watched in horror as our fellow citizens were blown away, not on a battlefield, but at their office desks.
The world changed forever on that day. President Bush brought the nation together in prayerful mourning and then led us into battle against the evil that perpetrated these cowardly acts.
With the support of the Afghan people and a coalition of 70 countries, President Bush took the fight to the enemy with Operation Enduring Freedom, which liberated Afghanistan, dismantled the Taliban and destroyed al-Qaeda's terrorist training camps. Last year, a U.S.-led coalition, through Operation Iraqi Freedom, liberated 26 million people from a brutal dictator that harbored known terrorists, defied the United Nations, cultivated ties to terrorist organizations and developed and used weapons of mass destruction.
President Bush has proven that he will not back down from any threat no matter the direction the political winds are blowing.
President Bush is not only fighting the war on terror on the streets of Baghdad and Falusia, but also on the streets of New York and Boston.
The President has delivered $149.7 million in Homeland Security funding to Massachusetts and has proposed $5.6 billion over the next decade for the Project Bioshield initiative to develop and purchase cutting-edge drugs, vaccines and other bio-defense supplies.
Under President Bush, the economy is getting stronger, having grown 4.8% in the past year, as fast as any year in nearly two decades. Productivity has grown at the fastest 3-year rate in more than 50 years.